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1 online resource (xx, 203 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Complete technology guides for financial services series
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Complete technology guides for financial services.
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| Summary |
Electronic and algorithmic trading has become part of a mainstream response to buy-side traders need to move large blocks of shares with minimum market impact in todays complex institutional trading environment. This book illustrates an overview of key providers in the marketplace. With electronic trading platforms becoming increasingly sophisticated, more cost effective measures handling larger order flow is becoming a reality. The higher reliance on electronic trading has had profound implications for vendors and users of information and trading products. Broker dealers providing solutions through their products are facing changes in their business models such as: relationships with sellside customers, relationships with buyside customers, the importance of broker neutrality, the role of direct market access, and the relationship with prime brokers. Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Technology: The Complete Guide is the ultimate guide to managers, institutional investors, broker dealers, and software vendors to better understand innovative technologies that can cut transaction costs, eliminate human error, boost trading efficiency and supplement productivity. As economic and regulatory pressures are driving financial institutions to seek efficiency gains by improving the quality of software systems, firms are devoting increasing amounts of financial and human capital to maintaining their competitive edge. This book is written to aid the management and development of IT systems for financial institutions. Although the book focuses on the securities industry, its solution framework can be applied to satisfy complex automation requirements within very different sectors of financial services from payments and cash management, to insurance and securities. Electronic and Algorithmic Trading: The Complete Guide is geared toward all levels of technology, investment management and the financial service professionals responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge technology. It outlines a complete framework for successfully building a software system that provides the functionalities required by the business model. It is revolutionary as the first guide to cover everything from the technologies to how to evaluate tools to best practices for IT management. *First book to address the hot topic of how systems can be designed to maximize the benefits of program and algorithmic trading *Outlines a complete framework for developing a software system that meets the needs of the firm's business model * Provides a robust system for making the build vs. buy decision based on business requirements. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overview of electronic and algorithmic trading -- Automating trade and order flow -- The growth of program and algorithmic trading -- Alternative execution venues -- Algorithmic strategies -- Algorithmic feasibility and limitations -- Electronic trading networks -- Effective data management -- Minimizing execution costs -- Transaction cost research -- Electronic and algorithmic trading for different asset classes -- Regulation NMS and other regulatory reporting -- Build vs. buy -- Trading technology and prime brokerage -- Profiling the leading vendors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Stocks -- Prices -- Mathematical models.
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Stocks -- Prices -- Mathematical models. |
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Program trading (Securities)
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Program trading (Securities) |
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Stock exchanges.
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Stock exchanges. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kim, Kendall. Electronic and algorithmic trading technology. Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, ©2007 9780123724915 0123724910 (DLC) 2007013849 (OCoLC)122973788 |
| ISBN |
9780080548869 (electronic book) |
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0080548865 (electronic book) |
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9780123724915 |
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0123724910 |
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1281119024 |
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9781281119025 |
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